Avi Rappoport (avirr)

Occasionally curious. Berkeleyite. Mom & partner. Trailing-edge Boomer. Liberal. Librarian and search consultant (currently updating the Faceted Search book). Medieval studies. BMUG and Mac software development alumna. Web stuff. City planning with disabilities in mind.

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2025-05-09 15:40:58

The whole SF BART system is not running as of May 9, 8:39 am.
Current status page:
https://www.bart.gov/news/articlesh

2025-05-08 05:19:57

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@nprofile…48vs As opposed to well, duh

2025-03-07 20:47:47

Stand Up For Science at Berkeley
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/114/123/099/810/924/929/original/71aa3df26d4532ab.jpeg

2025-02-19 22:37:18

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@nprofile…5r3x So no more buying books, you can only rent them. With fierce DRM I’m sure. And no guaranteed access. lovely

2025-01-03 17:38:21

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@nprofile…9x9h @nprofile…p8tg whereas MSB is medium and small businesses, easy to confuse!

2024-12-22 00:33:39

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@nprofile…fa4k gorgeous manuscript, too!

2024-11-27 17:14:03

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@nprofile…z22s
“water or energy usage generally sit at opposite ends of a see-saw: if usage of one is decreased, the other must be increased to compensate.”
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-know-ais-true-water-footprint/

2024-06-19 22:53:39

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@npub13vv…0sze He paid, that seems the key issue here.

2024-06-07 01:11:56

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@npub13vv…0sze Opening a daycare is good for a town!

2024-05-31 19:14:27

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@npub1uw8…88kr Seems like a grad student or postdoc could do the fieldwork?

2024-05-28 19:22:17

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@npub1dgz…p74y I hope the US signs on

2024-04-22 14:55:59

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@npub198t…hasj They seem reasonable as far as I read, do you have a summary anywhere?

2024-03-28 03:42:14

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@npub19fc…ay3c We’re working on https://berkeleyca.gov/safety-health/mental-health/crisis-services

2024-03-12 22:09:33

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@npub10fm…x0qg @npub19gm…4e9v I usually work with Medium Data.

2024-03-12 22:09:33

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@npub10fm…x0qg @npub19gm…4e9v I usually work with Medium Data.

2024-03-12 17:42:57

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@npub19gm…4e9v Oh that’s so funny!
Though Amazon, Google, credit ratings anddata brokers all together could be considered Big Data. They certainly lobby and bully like the other cartels.

2024-02-20 18:00:34

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@npub13vv…0sze Love time loops!

2024-02-05 23:57:47

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@npub1k4q…3lsq As are Fish

2024-01-28 21:15:48

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@npub12ss…c7zf @npub1rwl…07nx With enough money, they can buy water rights and pretty much anything else. Except maybe Travis, the busiest Air Force Base in the country. And utosuburbanites are not going to want those planes taking off and landing at all.

2024-01-26 16:00:30

65k pregnancies in 15 states resulting from “completed vaginal rapes” since Dobbs, with effectively no legal abortions using the rape exemptions. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association with compelling evidence . A tragedy for the women, the babies, the families and the communities. What an outrage!
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2814274

2024-01-21 19:04:51

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@npub1cy0…ggw4 Hi, is that chart adjusted for inflation? I read the article and downloaded the data snd couldn’t tell.

2023-12-29 21:43:49

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@npub1kk5…e0ds @npub1vl7…tar4 McArdle admits her spectacular fails (in her piece on pro-abortion backlash):
"I won’t say this is the wrongest I have ever been; that would be ridiculous, given that I supported the Iraq War, and thought the collapse of Lehman Brothers would instill a bracing sense of moral responsibility in the financial sector. But I have not been this wrong since I decided in 2016 to go on holiday after the election, because I thought there would be little worth covering in Hillary Clinton’s presidential transition."
gift source article: 🎁 https://wapo.st/3S04UNJ

2023-12-29 09:22:06

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@npub1kk5…e0ds @npub1vl7…tar4 I agree, would like a group to hold pundits to account. Did you see McArdle’s list of her failures? It was striking.

2023-12-29 09:22:06

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@npub1kk5…e0ds @npub1vl7…tar4 I agree, would like a group to hold pundits to account. Did you see McArdle’s list of her failures? It was striking.

2023-12-07 21:28:06

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@npub14cq…k7mw It always seemed like a Moral Panic!

2023-11-10 17:25:36

Kim Jong-un closes slate of North Korea’s embassies as sanctions bite
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/10/north-korea-embassies-closing-shutting-embassy-diplomatic-missions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2023-10-07 02:19:31

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@npub19xy…gky4 It’s a metadata leak, not the genetic tests themselves, though all of us leaped to that conclusion #23andMe

2023-07-26 00:56:07

Sturdy houses in Pakistan, low tech, low resources #GoodNews
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jul/25/this-will-not-be-swept-away-the-bamboo-homes-helping-pakistans-post-flood-rebuild?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2023-07-14 17:23:23

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@npub13vv…0sze Could you mention by the add link that is meant to go to the cryptpad.fr app? I’m paranoid and it showing up made me worry. I looked it up and understand now, but others may also be alarmed.

2023-07-14 14:12:14

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@npub15zu…s7lx That’s Australia but I bet it’s the same everywhere else.

2023-07-13 20:28:46

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@npub1feq…4u9n @npub1nm8…ummz $12/$14 per month! I wonder if you can start to get tech support and then cancel.

2023-06-19 11:06:24

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@npub1ev6…nh08 I’m not impressed with the study at all.

2023-05-01 19:22:07

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@npub1a4t…q9yj So clear that people can be incredibly dense about things that they don’t see affecting them personally.
As the replies show lot of probably-Not-Black people giving advice off the top of their heads, as though no one has ever considered the actions and implications. We white people need to listen, not tell.
Also this thread got some racists to show their asses. I’ve reported the worst and sent the sfba mod a note requesting they go through and block appropriate accounts and servers.
But the ones who claim literal color blindness are clearly culpable too.